abbreviating your masters? MSF? MS? MS-Fin? either, especially, business, finance, people

kmf229

For those of you with a masters in finance - how do you abbreviate it for business cards, etc ? They all seem to be either unrecognizable or too long. I've seen some people just leave it off, especially if they have a CFA, but i don't really get why you wouldn't want to advertise your masters.

transferpricing

Leave it off personally.

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badonkus

Yes, please leave it off.

I cringe when people have MA, MS, MBA or anything like that after their names.

Even worse are when people in certain professions will have like 5 or 6 obscure trade designations after their names..

bigredhockey55

No wonder people looking to get into finance can't find jobs.

zephyranalyst

You should only have CFA or Ph.D on your card. CFA because it is a designation relevant to your industry.

In this case CFA > MBA.

willsucceed

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> No wonder people looking to get into finance can't
> find jobs.


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morebeans

oh jeez, don't ever put a master's behind your name, not even top MBA grads put MBA behind their name.

I wouldn't even glance down past your name on a resume if I saw that.

cfa10yrplan

The answer is, it depends:

If you are looking to work in finance academia, you should put your degrees behind your name i.e., MST, MSF, MSA, MBA, MA, etc.

If you are looking to work in private sector finance, you should only put professional designations behind your name, CPA, CFA, CFP, etc...

I don't work in government; so I can't make suggestions regarding how public sector (CBO, SEC, etc) culture is regarding this kind of thing.

Therefore, what area of finance are you working or looking to work in?

AnalystAlan

I already work in AM, has nothing to do with resumes...this is for business cards, email signatures, etc.

Whole reason behind considering it is that a lot of the MBAs I know put it after their name and it always seemed kinda crap that people with an MS skipped it. By the standard of "you put CFA cause it's relevant," you would list an MS before you listed an MBA. I don't necessarily disagree with the standard of "put CFA and nothing else" or "if you have a PHD you're gonna put it down, so just shut up and put it down" but it irks me to skip the MS when I see MBA around all the time.

I'm considering removing it and putting just CFA once I'm elligible.

cv4cfa

Face + palm.